Hire: Prudent Specialist or Absent-Minded Genius?

A related, interesting subject is the matter of discipline, often
emphasized by HR professionals. Apparently, well-organized individuals
are better workers, or so they tell us. Well, we know it is not
necessarily true for creative work. But is it true for service industry?

I don't know, but here is what Operations Management theory tells us.
Apparently, according to the Waiting Lines
Models,
for constant arrival rate, flow time increases exponentially with mean
processing time, but it increases quadratically with the standard
deviation of processing time.

If you remember little off of your calculus class, in human language it
means: being able to, on average, complete jobs quickly is more
important than the variation in job completion times.

I will leave the pleasure of making conclusions to you :)

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